Healthcare Prof: Today sees the launch with the first viral video campaign aimed at Westminster MPs to secure an equal right to abortion for the women of Northern Ireland. Ladies in Northern Ireland do not have the same right to abortion as British women and suffer discrimination every day. Sexual wellness charity fpa, has created [...]
1 (2 votes) Healthcare Prof: Article Opinions:1 postsTime magazine this week explored the latest in a series of personal attacks made by the McCain presidential campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). Based on Time, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin (Alaska) claimed late last week that Obama “had once opposed providing [...]
Healthcare Prof: The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit on Thursday against an Oklahoma state law (SB 1878) that demands a woman seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound and requires doctors to describe the image, including various dimensions of the fetus, while the woman faces the screen, the AP/New York Times reports. The [...]
5 (2 votes) Healthcare Prof: With the economy becoming the dominant issue of the presidential campaign, some Democratic female voters who voted for President Bush since of his opposition to abortion rights are taking that issue “off the table, at least for now,” author and Slate contributor Melinda Henneberger writes in an opinion piece. Although [...]
3.86 (7 votes) Healthcare Prof: 3 (2 votes) Although it is “well-known” that a woman has choices when she is pregnant, “what isn’t fully known … is that each of these choices has long-term effects for both the parents,” a Washington Times editorial says, adding, “An abortion, much like” carrying a pregnancy to term or [...]
1 (1 votes) Healthcare Prof: The following summarizes recent women’s health-related blog entries.~ “Huge Economic and Wellness Costs of New HHS Regulation Dismissed,” Inimai Chettiar, RH Reality Check: An analysis of an HHS draft regulation that would allow health care providers who receive federal grants to deny medical services they object to on moral grounds [...]
5 (1 votes) Healthcare Prof: NARAL Pro-Choice America will release a new video advertisement today attacking Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s (Ariz.) position on abortion rights and Roe v. Wade, the Boston Globe‘s “Political Intelligence” reports. The advertisement will be sent to 500,000 advocates Wednesday evening to coincide with the final presidential debate. Based [...]
3.33 (3 votes) Healthcare Prof: Roman Catholic bishops with the Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, dioceses last week issued a letter calling abortion “intrinsically evil,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The letter, written by Fort Worth Bishop Kevin Vann and Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell, said that it would be “morally impermissible” for Catholics to vote [...]
3.67 (3 votes) Healthcare Prof: The debate over Indiana legislation that would increase requirements for physicians who perform abortions “has moved to the county level” following statewide efforts to enact the legislation stalled, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reports. In Allen County, Ind., Allen County Right To Life has drafted a county ordinance that would [...]
Healthcare Prof: 3 (1 votes) The U.S. political parties “need to redefine themselves for moderate female voters — and left-leaning pro-life men — who see abortion as a lack of alternatives, rather than a celebration of progress,” Angela Kays-Burden, a social worker and Christian minister, writes in a Christian Science Monitor opinion piece. “As a [...]
